Shakespeare Globe

Setting the Scene

Leading scholars provide interesting and helpful introductions to the evening play.

Selected Tuesdays.
Time: 6 - 7pm
Venue: Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
Tickets: £5 (£4 FoSG/concs, £3 students)

The Merry Wives of Windsor

14 Sept Professor Michael Cordner University of York
Michael Cordner is Ken Dixon Professor of Drama in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York. He is the founding General Editor of Oxford University Press's Oxford English Drama series, which ranges from the Elizabethan and Jacobean repertoire to the early twentieth century theatre, and in which over thirty volumes have now appeared. His own editions include, most recently, Four Restoration Marriage Plays, and Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Other Play (both Oxford University Press). At York he has been responsible for the introduction of the innovative BA in Writing, Directing and Performance, and himself regularly directs productions of early modern plays with student casts, most recently, James Shirley's Hyde Park and John Marston's The Malcontent.

21 Sept Professor Michael Dobson Birkbeck, University of London
Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he is chair of the new MA programme in Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, run in conjunction with Globe Education. His publications include The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (with Stanley Wells, 2001, most recently revised 2009), The Making of the National Poet (1992), Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (2006), and England's Elizabeth (with Nicola Watson, 2002). He has contributed programme notes for the Globe, the RSC, Peter Stein and other companies, reviews regularly for the BBC and the London Review of Books, and is a frequent contributor to Around The Globe.

28 Sept Professor Lois Potter University of Delaware
Lois Potter recently retired as Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She has also taught at the universities of Aberdeen and Leicester and been a visiting professor at Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and Tsuda College, Japan. She is the editor of the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen and of two volumes in the Revels History of Drama in English. Authored books include the Plays in Performance volume on Othello, the Text and Performance volume on Twelfth Night, and numerous essays on Shakespeare, theatre history, literature of the English civil war, and Robin Hood. She is also a frequent reviewer of theatre productions. Her current project is a critical biography of Shakespeare for Blackwell, which she expects to complete in 2011.

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